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Displaying them overhead or enshrined on pedestals, as at MoMA, is more dramatic and less ambiguous than propping them against gallery walls.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026
Assuming cost is no object, and you can live with some bad or ambiguous news, it’s hard to argue against testing.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
“The fund is going to plaintiffs who were victims of lawfare or weaponization. … Those are pretty ambiguous terms. They’re sort of in the eye of the beholder,” Nixon said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026
The MoD publicly accepted the Russian explanation, but three senior Western defence sources later told the BBC the Russian pilot had fired the missile following an ambiguous command from a Russian ground station.
From BBC • May 20, 2026
But the biggest obstacle for Elisha was that Maggie worked as a spirit medium, “an obscure and ambiguous profession.”
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Vocabulary lists containing ambiguous
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 1
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "A"
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Grade 9, List 1
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